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Weston-York Times (1971), 26 Jul 1973, p. 8

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© _/ Pave %â€"The Times. Thuradav. July 2. 1973 RQCOM AIRCONDITIONERS serve the public as active staff members but who never distribute a single book. Led by Mrs. Donna Jones, the group works out of a crowded basement room at the centennial community branch on Finch Avenue. In a sense, they take the mountain to Mohammed, making the library available to those unable to visit it themselves. If they seem to operate with more confidence of late, it‘s probably because for the first time their work is covered by the library‘s There‘s a group of seven young adults at the North MFGS. LIST $209.50 Downsview ATKINSON COLLEGE 4700 Keele Street, Downsview, Ontario Telephone 667â€"3946 (9 a.m.â€"10 p.m.) Telephone or call in person Evening Degree Programmes Applications from new students to be received by August 1. Minimum age for admission as mature student â€"21 years. AUTUMN/WINTER 1973 â€"74 September 17/1973 â€" April 5/1974 Airtemp‘s overnight sensation Programmes in administrative studies, Canadian studies, fine arts, humanities, science, social welfare and urban studies, in addition to the customary arts programmes G (DrK LNIVERSITY YÂ¥ ATKINSON COLLEGE is pleased to announce offices established at ELLIOTT CHIROPRACTIC OFFICE 1630AÂ¥ WILSON AVE. The Sleeper E. H. Etuott, D. C. CHIROPRACTOR (CRANG PLAZA, JANE AND WILSON) 5000 B.T.U. MODEL Promoting the library ENGLISH & MOULD LTD. CHRYSLER CORPORATION HARQWARE 1178 WESTON RD. At Eglinton Ave 162â€"7575 One day recently, after a meeting around the busyâ€" looking table in their headquarters room â€" rather books. They do this by distributing records, showing films, putting on shows and teaching crafts. librarian, John Dutton, they are promoting the library as a vital part of the comâ€" munity, demonstrating the wealth of information available, quite apart from budget. Until recently they lived a somewhat handâ€"to mouth existence as, first, an Opportunities for Youth program, then as a Initiatives Project. 247â€"3626 Once a week Miss Jean Fox, who lives in a lowâ€" rental apartment on Parkâ€" woods Valley Drive, is shown a movie in her living room. Miss Fox has been confined to a wheelchair since she sustained a spinal injury in 1939. She looks forward to her weekly movie and invites other residents in the apartment block to see it with her. She particularly enjoys travelogues, "movies about places where I can‘t go myself,"" she explains. "Disney and I do not agree,‘"" Miss Fox declares â€" she loves to discuss what she has just seen. "He‘s unrealistic â€" I don‘t believe By ten o‘clock, two of them were conducting crafts in the Elmtree Nursing Home, showing a dozen childishly enthusiastic old men â€" some of them in wheelchairs â€" how to make a clipboard featuring a large maple leaf. A few miles away in a senior citizens‘ residence, four ladies sitting around a table cluttered with cuttings were being shown how to turn bits of colored cloth into gayâ€" looking toy caterpillars. "You make lots of nice things you wouldn‘t thing of doing by yourself," one of them commented. And over on Yonge Street, in the Rotary School for Retarded Children, a group of 35 youngsters were watching, fascinated, as Marcel Marceaux caught a butterfly in pantomime. Before the day was out, members of the group had shown several more movies, spent time just talking to a blind man of 80 and staged a puppet show â€" a skill they will demonstrate three times a day at the Canadian National Exhibition. materials and instruments, climbed into their van, which the two men take <turns driving, and headed for various parts of North York using their particular brand of magic to enlarge the worlds of the sick and the old and the disadvantaged. like a huddle â€" the group of seven gathered up their MEN‘S AND LADIES‘ LEATHER AND SUEDE GARMENTS CUSTOM MADE TO MEASURE 2157 WESTON RD. 249â€"3« WESTON PLAZA Compare Our Prices! SAVE at least 25 % They‘re a talented lot, this library team. Occasionally, and especially at Christmas time, they give concerts and they teach people how to make an amazing array of attractive and useful arâ€" ticles. * It‘s more than a job to members of the group. Watching a feeble old chap painting his clipboard at the Elmtree Nursing Home, Donna remarked, "They don‘t always thank you, but there‘s a feeling you get and you know you‘re appreciated and that makes it all seem worthwhile." Not everyone who is confined to their home can be shown films on a regular basis, but Donna tries to accommodate everyone. Among others who have this service are Mrs. Gladys Allison, who started the North York Public Library in 1937 and is now crippled with arthritis, and Mrs. Edna Riddell, an 89â€"yearâ€"old former nurse who is bedridden in the Cheltingham Nursing Home. When she was a girl, Mrs. Riddell explained, she had several brothers, all of whom were enthusiastic hockey players. That‘s why she keeps asking to see a film of the 1972 NHL hockey playoffs, which has been promised her. A as the film." any bear is safe to play with." The team rotates to show Miss Fox her movie. "I want her to meet them all," says Donna. "To someone confined to her apartment, that‘s almost as important â€" Donna has been with the program since it started with an LIP grant in March of last year. Her team consists of Barbara Bead, who is a former teacher; Helena Hamiiton, who is an artist and poet; Mary MacCarl, an artist; Arlene Clark, teacher and folksinger; Mike Smith, who plays the guitar and teaches crafts; and Jerry Lomoro, whom _ Donna describes as being "good with puppets and kids." 249â€"3910 Ron Casey, a Weston resident, has opened a new Datsuif dealership at the former premises of Bill Barter Motors at 1655 Wilson Avenue. The name of the dealership will be Downsview Datsun Limited. Mr. Barter had been in the automobile business at that location for many years. The dealership changed hands earlier this month. MARTA‘S PET & AQUARIA \<. WE BOARD (‘Sj a % BIRDS & SMALL ; /:/ now i _ Aanimatis Q OPEN 3 Lirrens é PuppiEs w _ See us for Tropical F.i.d Ask for BOB PROWSE Summer pet needs â€" MON. to FRI.â€"12 to 9; 2149 WESTON RD. SAT. 9â€"7 born in Toronto and attended school at R.H. McGregor Public School and was a graduate of East York Collegiate. After having worked for awhile he attended a business college and took a business adâ€" ministration course. Mr. Lawrence was an ardent gardener and had one of the most beautiful gardens in Toronto in his Balliol Street home. He was also a great lover of animals. suddenly at his home Saturday, July 21 at From Toronto Mr. Lawrence moved to Peterborough and became the office and credit manager of Peterborough _ Civic Hospital. He was with Peterborough Civic for eight years. On his return to Toronto there were no openings in any of the hospitals around and Lloyd went to work for the T. Eaton Comâ€" pany for two years prior to becoming business manager of _ Norâ€" thwestern General. Lloyd Lawrence fortyâ€"two years of age. Lloyd E. Lawrence, business manager of Northwestern General Hospital, passed away Mr. Lawrence was cLOseD SUND A Y Funeral services were held yesterday morning at the chapel of Morley S. Bedford, Eglinton Avenue West, with a private cremation. a sister Cheryl and brother Keith and many friends. Lloyd had a knack of elating those around him and he leaves many happy memories. When his friends and family think of him they will think of Tennyson, the poet, when he wrote of the man: who put more into life, than he ever got out of it. He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lawrence of Agincourt, See us for Tropical Fish Birds, and all pet supplies Summer pet needs WESTON PLAZA PHONE 242â€"2619 Lloyd Lawerence

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